A Prayer After an Attack on our People

אב הרחמים God of mercyמחזק ידי רופאי הפיגועים Strengthen those who heal the wounded עוזר לשומרים Give courage to our defendersמנחם שכוליםComfort the bereavedמקיים אמונתך לכל דור ודור Keep faith with this generation and the...
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The Arba'ah Minim

By Alan Lucas Adapted from The Observant Life The arba’ah minim, literally “the four species,” are better known as the lulav and etrog, after the two most prominent of the four: the palm branch and the citron. The other two species are...
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Beat It! The Ritual of Havatat Aravot

By Bradley Shavit Artson, Ziegler SchoolThis CJ Journal article originally appeared in Vol. 48, No. 4, Summer, 1996, pp. 26–34. The introduction follows below:One of Judaism's oddest rituals is that of beating the aravot (willow fronds)...
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Seder N'tilat Lulav

This ready-to-use text, which includes commentary and kavanot, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A Commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom.
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